With the BBC Radio 3 World Music Awards now axed, Songlines Magazine has become the most prestigious World Music Award going. The winners have just been announced. The winners, selected by the Songlines editorial team and listed below, are published in the June issue of Songlines (#84).

A 16-track compilation album featuring the winners and all nominees is out now on CD and download (you can listen to tracks from the CD below). A Songlines Music Awards 2012 app for the iPad, iPhone and iPod touch is also available to download for free from the iTunes App store.

BEST ARTIST

Anoushka Shankar

(For the album Traveller on DG - see trailer, below)

BEST GROUP

Tinariwen [1]

(For the album Tassili on V2)

CROSS-CULTURAL COLLABORATION

Yo-Yo Ma, Stuart Duncan, Edgar Meyer & Chris Thile

(For the album Goat Rodeo Sessions on Sony Classical)

NEWCOMER

Fatoumata Diawara

(For the album Fatou on World Circuit)